Impressions

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The Painting

Tweet Review by Dean Duncan Jun 9, 2015 @deanduncan63

Saw #ThePainting (2011), which made for a really successful and productive Family Cinema session. You guys should see it.

#ThePainting. Knowingly, lovingly integrates post/impression/fauvist principle, practice, practitioners. Thoroughly: see foregrounds/ …

… backgrounds, figure/ground, characters/setting. This isn’t pastiche. It’s a kids’ museum, or a really inspiring multi-art lesson.

#ThePainting. Resonant conflict patterns: mud/purebloods, star-bellied Sneetches; capital/labour, under/development. Sounds echoes …

… of Township & Ghetto, purging & Holocaust. Philosophically, lays out the tenets/implications of existentialism, deism, death of/ …

… the author. Also, the Absurd, autonomy, activism &, it seems, a particularly Protestant (indiv.) search for the divine. Does it all …

… concisely, lightly, impressionistically (of course). Bonus/warning: one of the talking paintings isn’t wearing any clothes!